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Command And Conquer Generals Deluxe Edition - Windows

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3 star:		(1)
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First, I want to say this game ROCKS. I recently repurchased it because I wanted a game worthy of my time. My very favorite aspect is that it favors brain over brawn--with the (possible) exception of the Chinese Overlord Tank, there is nothing you can spam to blindly charge and overcome everything. But if you pick the right units and manage them smartly, you can acheive Spartan-like dominance. Last night I sent over 200 GLA basic infantry at a Patriot Missle embankment of 10 or 12 units, and moved at least 3 dozen rocket buggies around for a flank attack. My opponent saw my buggies with his UAV scouts, and killed them all with a handful of commanche helicopters (buggies have no air defense), while my AK47's and suicide bombers were slaughtered by his missile turrets (they're not meant to fight defense buildings). In the next minute he lost 6 commanches and 2 tanks to my 6 RPG troops bunkered in a building. You CANNOT throw stuff blindly around and expect to win. I like having to think.

Since no other reviews on here seem to do this, let me briefly review my impression of each faction.

USA--these guys are about two things--communication, and precision. The U.S. start out with radar, and they're the only faction to do so. An early General ability is to drop a UAV scout over any point in the map, and as long as it's not detected/shot down it will stay there and show you that part of the map. In addition, the U.S. Command Center has an ability to do a radar sweep of an area at will. Finally, you can also have a detention center that will periodically allow you to see EVERYTHING your opponent does. Basically, the U.S. is Big Brother, and he's watching you. Even their defense systems communicate. If two or more Patriot Missile emplacements are close together, they can network to all fire at the same enemy--even if that enemy would normally be out of range for one of them.

The precision part shows up in the U.S. Arsenal. The Pathfinder (sniper) can make quick work of infantry, and their big tank (The Paladin) has a slow-firing defense laser that can even stop a SCUD missile. They have a broad air force including a fighter jet and stealth bomber (both limited in use, in my opinion), an attack helicopter (commanche), and a supersonic bomber. The chopper can make quick work of any ground unit that's away from air defense, but is made of paper and goes down pretty easily. The Aurora bomber can put a nasty bomb anywhere you want it, being impossible to hit until it has dropped its payload. Even the U.S. superweapon is precise--the ion beam is mouse-controlled to affect a very specific area. In comparison to the other two weapons, this is pretty underwhelming--but the rest of the American arsenal makes up for it.


CHINA--These guys are about brute force and strength in numbers. Their basic infantry, rocket infantry, and basic tank are all slightly weaker than their American counterparts, but they also get a "horde" bonus if you have a group of 5 or more close to one another. The Chinese don't start with radar; you have to build a separate building for that. While they don't have the map advantage that the U.S. does, their focus on specialty armor and artillery make them a formiddable foe. Their basic defense turret is a gattling cannon instead of a missile emplacement, so it deals much better damage to infantry and aircraft.

The Chinese have an air force, if a very limited one--they only have one plane, the MiG. It's slightly better in air combat than the U.S. fighter plane, and its missiles have a napalm effect--get a few of them to bomb the same ground target, and you get a nasty little firestorm effect that lasts for a little bit. The real stars in the Chinese arsenal are its artillery and the Overlord tank. Its basic artillery fires a napalm shell, and if you get a few of these guys going you get that same firestorm that makes for a handy no-man's land. This can put a sudden stop to any opposing land assault. If you don't want several basic artillery running around, you can also opt for one or two nuke cannons. They lob mini-nukes great distances, and they do severe damage with a radioactive lingering effect. The Overlord is a gigantic two-barreled tank, the heaviest ground unit in the game. It can be upgraded with a healing tower, an infantry bunker, or a pair of gattling cannons for air and infantry defense. While not such a star, the Chinese gattling tank is also a force to be reckoned with. Basically, this armor-centric arsenal is designed to punch through and mow down anything in their path. If you preferred the Orcs from Warcraft 3, these guys are for you. Their superweapon also demonstrates this--while consuming a great amount of power, the Nuke is the Big Ugly of the super weapons and leaves a long-lasting radioactive effect over a large radius.



GLA--These poor guys don't have map-hack skills or brute force. They're the ragtag, the rebels, the little people, and very difficult to play with--I'll spend a bit more time on them so you can see how they work. They also, unsurprisingly, don't start with radar--you have to get the vehicle for that. The extra delay of having to build a vehicle depot means that the GLA goes the longest in any game without radar, and this makes you feel pretty vulnerable starting out. There's also a consistent sense of being broke, at least early on. The USA uses its mighty Chinooks to get supplies, and the Chinese use their supply trucks. The GLA uses slaves. They don't take as long to collect supplies, but they move more slowly and carry less. And they complain.

Despite these difficulties, the GLA is surprisingly viable as a fighting force--instead of brute force or precision strikes, they excel at map control and generally annoying the crap out of your opponent. They're very versatile--unlike the USA and China, they do not require power plants to keep any of their buildings running, so you never have to worry about support for your buildings. This allows you to decentralize greatly, to great effect. For example, troops will not automatically attack most buildings, so destroying a base is cumbersome work. If you know which buidings to take out, you can cripple your opponent. If they can't find your important buildings or you have more than one, you can frustrate them greatly--especially if your base has defense buildings throughout.


The GLA defense building is the stinger site, manned by a few rpg troops. These troops can be killed separately from the site itself, but over time they regenerate. If the stinger site itself is blown up, a tunnel hole is left, and you can quickly rebuild if the tunnel hole hasn't been destroyed. They also have a Tunnel Network building, which allows you to move up to 10 troops instantly to any other Tunnel Network building you own. This makes for a very fast reinforcement system to frustrate your opponents advance.

The GLA arsenal is almost entirely constructed of paper meche, but very cheap. In terms of infantry, the best unit is the mob. Starting with 5 civilians with guns (and later, AK47s), this unit gets larger over time and is very hard to kill. They use Molotov cocktails on buildings and vehicles, to great effect. The GLA armor division is also very ragtag. Quad Cannons are like a paper version of the Gattling tank, and even the Marauder tank can't really hold its own against other armor. But, both of these can upgrade their guns to great effect by "salvaging" the remains of enemy tanks you kill. You can also get a "junk" upgrade that lets your fighting armor repair itself on the fly, which is really handy. For artillery, you have a rocket buggy (which has range juuust longer than that of defensive buildings) and the SCUD Launcher, what I consider to be as good as the Chinese Nuke Launcher. It doesn't fire as far, but it hits hard and it's not nearly as cumbersome. And you never know when it will pop out of a tunnel network. Finally, the GLA have the truck bomb--yes, manned by a suicide bomber. This can be disguised as an enemy armor unit, and your opponent has to manually click on it to undo the camouflage. He'll see this coming when you attack him--but defensively, it can make a significant difference very quickly. And of course, the GLA have no air force at all. Their Superweapon is the SCUD storm, a toxic wannabe Nuke shower that still covers a large area and hurts worse than the USA superweapon.

Long story short: Just buy the game. It's not that expensive and most games coming out nowadays aren't worth your brain cells or your hard-earned dollars. This game, while a bit old, is AMAZING! Any Real Time Junkie can find a lot to love in this game with amazing graphics, different play styles and different ways to play the game, it's amazing and certainly a great way to spend hours of your time.

This is one of those games that never die, it is nine years since this game was created and never lost it charms!!! buy it, play it.

This is one of the best games I've ever owned. I've also played it more than any other game. This was the only game I took to uni and I played it on and off for 3 years without wanting for anything more. I finally decided to take a break and try out C&C3 - nowhere near as good. The graphics might be showing their age but the game play is still bang on. Here's why this is my favourite game since Red Alert 2...

- Units are customizable, but not so customizable you get confused
- Awesome superweapons. Ion cannons shoot huge lasers from space and are oh so fun, nuclear missiles are destructive and leave a lot of mess behind.
- Different strategies for different players/situations/maps/preferences. I prefer to build impenetrable defences and build lots of super weapons (I'm just nasty like that)
- Different types of weapons effective against different types of unit and with different defensive measures needed
- Well balanced, all sides have clear advantages over eachother
- Playing as the special 'Generals' with their spacial skills makes for more varied play
- Earn medals for playing skirmish maps. You can look over your skirmish menu and feel proud that you've beaten every map, earned 100 career wins, won a game in under 5mins etc
- Chinese mammoth tanks can crush other tanks. come on, thats pretty cool
- Invisible snipers. Every now and then you'll hear the satisfying sound of an enemy dying off screen "ping" "urgh". Lovely stuff

The game is fun but playing against the computer gets boring pretty quick.
Online it's more fun because you can play friends or random ppl from all over the world. Even though the game is pretty old already.
If you don't have a high-end computer or if you do & feel like playing a classic again, then you should get this.
It runs just fine, even under Windows 7!

This is a video game for windows XP, so it is supposed to be expected that there are some problems under windows 7, but luckily, there is a huge community of players for this game online and they do come up with solutions for the problems under windows 7. Describe your problem and then google it, you can find the solution and enjoy it.

major problems under windows 7 are:
1. error after installation & game update. The solution is right click the icon and choose "run as administrator"
2. error for the CG video, the symptom is that you enter the game for a while and then error pop out forcing you back to windows, it looks like it is the result of CG video incompatible to windows 7. solution is to download a file from online game community to replace a original file and that can help you skip the video (the incompatible part of the game).

By the way, it looks like the game using some poor memory manage methods and that lead to a fact that in multiplayer mode, more than 5 players (including AI and you) in a game will constantly lead to error forcing you back to windows.

I've been playing this game for more than seven years now. It's just a great game. I've spent so much money to get the deluxe edition back in time when it was released. Sadly, someone stole it from my car, so I had to get a new one. When I saw this deal I couldn't believe my eyes! 7.99$ for one of the greatest games ever! I placed my order immediately, and I got the game within the same week.

I highly recommend this game, and this seller.

I LOVED playing this game. I first played it when it came out and my friend gave it to me as a gift. I let my cousin borrow it and it got all scratched up. I saw this item for sale at a AWESOME price and I had to buy it. I can't believe it only took 3 days for the package to arrive in my mail box. I will soooo order from this seller again.Command And Conquer Generals Deluxe Edition - Windows

Bought this game for my son when it first came out. He liked it, but I loved it!!! Although I do like the good graphics, what I like most, is the strategy you have to come up with to win the hardest levels. It definitely takes some brain work to balance your build-ups, defenses, and attacks efficiently. I've never been a fan of games that allow a player to excel if they just play alot. This Command & Conquer and Zero Hour take some thought to get through every map & every opponent.

I'd love to find a replacement, because you can only play the same games so much, but I have yet to find it.

i had gotten this game when i was 9 years old , i was blown away. this was the first game that got me into war games. but it has some bug tho just to let u know. but overall it a kick a.. game